We think we are creating the system for our own purposes. We believe we are making it in our own image... But the computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very slim part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule, and clarity.
Ellen Ullman
Context
I discovered this remark by Ellen Ullman (from Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents) in Marijn Haverbeke's Eloquent Javascript, 4th Ed.
The mechanization of human beings and nature represents one of the most impoverished mental models to have arisen in human thought.